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Amid a ‘Tripledemic,’ It’s Time to Mask Up Again, Experts Say
NYT via msn ^ | Dec 13, 2022 | Dana G. Smith

Posted on 12/14/2022 2:50:09 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for Covid-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V., sweeping through the United States has prompted several cities and counties, including New York City and Los Angeles County, to encourage people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces once again......

There is strong evidence that masks help to reduce the transmission of several respiratory viruses. One paper published in 2020 by researchers in Hong Kong showed that people sick with either Covid-19 or the flu breathed out fewer viral particles when they were wearing a surgical mask. (Masks were found not to be as effective for the rhinovirus, though, which causes the common cold.) A study of Covid-19 policies in Boston-area schools found that removing a mask mandate in 2022 was tied to nearly 12,000 additional cases among students and staff....

Masks work by filtering out both the tiny aerosol particles through which the coronavirus is primarily spread and the larger droplets that are thought to be responsible for most influenza and R.S.V. transmission. They also stop you from touching your face in case you picked up virus particles on your hands from a doorknob or subway pole. And while masks are most effective at stopping the spread of these viruses when the infected person is wearing one, masking to protect yourself from disease is still beneficial, particularly if you’re using a high-quality version like N95, KN95 or KF94.

“The basic truth is that masks work,” said Syra Madad, senior director of the systemwide special pathogens program at New York City Health + Hospitals. “Whether you’re talking about Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses like R.S.V. and flu, wearing a mask will help protect you against all these respiratory viral illnesses.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: childabuse; covid19; facediapers; influenza; masks; propaganda; rsv; scamdemic; tripledemic
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Total crap, all about control.

1 posted on 12/14/2022 2:50:09 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
IN hindsight, it was a bad idea to look for an image related to "Shove that mask up your..."

Not recommended.

2 posted on 12/14/2022 2:52:11 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
[A “tripledemic”]


3 posted on 12/14/2022 2:53:27 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Masks = Don’t work.
Study after study after study has indicated this.


4 posted on 12/14/2022 2:54:02 AM PST by cranked
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If I hear one more f-ing moron say “well it’s better than nothing,” I’m going to flip out. No. It IS nothing.


5 posted on 12/14/2022 2:56:23 AM PST by ModernDayCato (Noah was a conspiracy theorist until it started raining. )
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To: Caipirabob

The war was never meant to be won. It was always meant to be continuous.


6 posted on 12/14/2022 2:57:58 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
“The basic truth is that masks work,” said Syra Madad, senior director of the systemwide special pathogens program at New York City Health + Hospitals.

People who lie like that should be taken to the public square and beaten with sticks.

7 posted on 12/14/2022 2:59:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Max up and get re-injected
or else you will be rejected
by all the cool kids.
Then you’ll be on the skids

Lord Fauci is the bomb
So lets follow his sing along


8 posted on 12/14/2022 3:01:27 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“....wearing a mask will help protect you against all these respiratory viral illnesses.”

Why didn’t this work over the last three years?


9 posted on 12/14/2022 3:04:18 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: joma89

***. It was always meant to be continuous. ***

Like Vietnam?


10 posted on 12/14/2022 3:05:23 AM PST by Surrounded_too (Low priority)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

There is strong evidence that masks help to reduce the transmission

like catching sand through a chain link fence


11 posted on 12/14/2022 3:06:27 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Surrounded_too

While I did not quote him, that phrase is from Orwell’s book 1984.


12 posted on 12/14/2022 3:11:32 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SaveFerris

Tripledemic and next year quad-demic, and the year after that pentademic.

ENOUGH OF THE BS!! Then again all the Maskerbaters must be sucking their face diapers with joy.


13 posted on 12/14/2022 3:12:16 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Surrounded_too

More like Afghanistan - longer than Vietnam, and ending only when another market for hardware (Ukraine) has opened up.


14 posted on 12/14/2022 3:12:35 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: dennisw

Wear a mask and you’ll punch your ticket for the Democrats’ oligarchy.


15 posted on 12/14/2022 3:15:20 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Oh. Shut. Up.


16 posted on 12/14/2022 3:19:45 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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They finally admitted what science has known for decades; that masks do not protect from viruses; but now, with THREE viruses, masks could work.


17 posted on 12/14/2022 3:26:02 AM PST by Missouri gal
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Masks are back

To hell with them.

18 posted on 12/14/2022 3:27:03 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Beaten with sticks?

Yes.

Then tarred and feathered.

Then pilloried for a week.

Then dragged out of town by horses.


19 posted on 12/14/2022 3:28:58 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

All up to the individual - you want to wear one, wear one, but mandating such is garbo BS, just like with the vaccines, boosters, etc. - but posting anyways:

‘Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy’
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy


20 posted on 12/14/2022 3:32:02 AM PST by cranked
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